Textbook
Honest Graft: The World of George Washington Plunkitt (Plunkitt of Tammany Hall), 2nd Edition, RevisedISBN: 978-1-881089-58-2
Paperback
176 pages
November 2006, ©2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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"Tammany Hall was far more than a disinterested detached city
government for several million poor, working-class New Yorkers. It
was also a successful city government delivering municipal
services, a social welfare agency assisting the immigrant poor and
their children in adjusting to the new country, a political
interest group giving working-class people at least a modest voice
in an economic world increasingly dominated by rich
corporations."
--James S. Olson
"In essence: the machine politicos, for all their genuine
resonance with their constituencies, saw the average voter as a
creature of appetite; the scientific progressives, for all their
hauteur, expected something better of the public and were prepared
to work for it."
--James W. Mooney